Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, a 25-year-old recent recruit his head out of an office to shout, "Can't anyone keep these subversives out of here...
...Keep Them Guessing. The ultimate decision will be left to William McChesney Martin, the outgoing Federal Reserve chairman, who has a reason to favor continued stringency. Twice since 1966, Martin's board has made major errors in expanding the money supply too much and too soon. The Fed committed its worst error in mid-1968, when it increased the money supply by 14% to counteract the expected deflationary effects of the surtax. That action sharply accelerated the current inflation. Martin now wants to restore his reputation as a sound-money man by making sure that inflation is effectively constrained...
ECKSTEIN: The Administration is in for some unhappy months. But you have to keep it in perspective. First of all, the unemployment will not be recession unemployment. Small changes in the unemployment rate do not have any visible effect on social unrest. Unrest has been at its peak when unemployment was low. As long as the Administration can show progress toward price stability, and as long as it can keep us out of a recession, I don't think that the voters will have anything to complain about...
...across the country. "We learned that what bores them is too much time spent on any one subject." Hence the short spots. Also, "Nothing loses them faster than an adult full-face on the screen just talking." Hence the Muppets, the graphics and the film clips. "We try to keep verbiage to a minimum," Palmer adds. "If you sit and talk straight at them, kids think you're giving them Walter Cronkite...
Shuttling between the intriguing past and the insipid present, Richard Young, a priggish fellow, attempts to keep his vulgarian wife ignorant of his new time travel kick but succeeds only in riveting her-and a wary community's-attention upon his strange behavior. Du Maurier's view of both modern and medieval marriage is remarkably waspish, but it is this very connubial bitchiness that keeps the novel from a routine Gothicism and makes it a stylish, contemporary entertainment...